Subject: ISCApad #23 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 13:39:23 +0100 From: Isabel Trancoso To: isca_members@isca-speech.org ============================================================================ ISCApad number 23 March 30, 2000 ============================================================================ Dear ISCA members, Here is the table of contents of ISCApad #23: ISCA news: - new Special Interest Group: SProSIG Reminder: - Electronic submission of full papers for the ISCA ITRW ASR2000 May 1, 2000 http://www-tlp.limsi.fr/asr2000/ - Electronic submission of abstracts for ICSLP 2000 April 20th, 2000 http://www.icslp2000.org Other future conferences and workshops (see summaries below): - VOTS 2000 Gent, Belgium May 11-12, 2000 Preliminary program available at: http:/www.elis.rug.ac.be/cost249/workshop - 38th Annual Meeting of ACL October 3-6, 2000 Hong Kong http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/ Submissions must be received by April 7th, 2000 - Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2000) Natural and Synthetic Nov. 27 - Dec. 2, 2000 Denver, Colorado http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/NIPS Paper submissions are due May 19, 2000. Others: - special issue on Multi-Media (IJST): call for submissions - Position at IDIAP - SAIL Trust is looking for tech entrepreneurs in the field of artificial intelligence and speech/language technologies ISCA Greetings, Isabel Trancoso ============================================================================ ISCA has just approved the creation of SProSIG: a Special Interest Group (SIG) on Speech Prosody. The creation of SProSIG was supported by 72 founder members from 23 different countries (Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, UK, USA, Venezuela). Membership of the group is open to anyone with a scientific interest in research on the prosody of human speech. Elections will be held during the coming year to nominate officers. Until the first elections the following acting officers have been nominated: Chairman: Daniel Hirst Secretary: Bernard Bel Liaison officer: Nick Campbell The aims of SProSIG are to promote the study and diffusion of knowledge about Speech Prosody in general in a number of ways, including: + dedicated web pages + a regular email Newsletter + a bibliographic database + organisation of workshops on specific themes + helping to co-ordinate sessions on prosody in International meetings (Interspeech, Eurospeech, ICPhS, ICL etc.) It is also hoped that the International nature of the SIG will provide a means for diffusing information both to and from the different language communities involved in research on various languages. To Post a message, send it to: To Subscribe, send a blank message to: To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: Previous postings can be viewed in the list archive: . Web page: ============================================================================ PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME OF THE VOTS-2000 WORKSHOP (GENT, 11-12 MAY 2000) Web site: http:/www.elis.rug.ac.be/cost249/workshop Registration deadline: APRIL 15 !!! Thursday, May 11 8.45 : Registration 9.15 : Opening session 9.30 : Keynote 1 by Hugh Cameron (L&H, Canada) Speech at the interface 10:15 : Keynote 2 by Denis Johnston (BT, UK) Speech Technology - Shaking the foundations 11:00 : Coffee break 11:30 ; Oral session 1 12:30 : General discussion 13.00 : Lunch 14.00 : Poster and demo session 15:30 : Coffee break 16:00 : Keynote 3 by Petri Haavisto (Nokia, Finland) [title to be confirmed] 16:45 : Keynote 4 by Sadaoki Furiu (TiTech, Japan) Steps towards natural human-machine communication in the 21st century 17:30 : General discussion 19:30 : Dinner Friday, May 12 9.30 : Keynote 5 by Volker Steinbiss (Philips, Germany) Speech dialogue systems in the telecom network 10:15 : Keynote 6 by Fred Lundin (Telia, Sweden) Development of a public voice dialling telephone service 11:00 : Coffee break 11:30 : Oral session 2 12:30 : General discussion 13.00 : Lunch 14:00 : Keynote 7 by Christian Dugast (Nuance, France) Case studies to help understand the new generation network 14:45 : Keynote 8 by Roger Moore (20/20 Speech, UK) The future of speech-based services: bringing in the benefit 15:30 : General discussion 16:00 : Closing session (15 minutes) ============================================================================ 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 3--6 October, 2000 Hong Kong http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/ There will be General Sessions as well as a number of special Thematic Sessions organized around themes proposed by members of the computational linguistics community. For the General Sessions, papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language; language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction; corpus-based language modeling; multi-lingual processing, machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; approaches to coordinating the linguistic with other modalities in multi-media systems; message and narrative understanding systems; tools and resources; and evaluation of systems. Papers submitted to the Thematic Sessions are more narrowly targeted at specific topics. The list of Thematic Sessions is as follows: T1: NLP and Open-Domain Question Answering from Text T2: Machine Learning and Statistical NLP for Dialogue T3: Text Summarization T4: Theoretical and Technical Approaches for Asian Language Processing -- Similarities and Differences among Languages Submissions must be received by April 7th, 2000 at: ACL-2000 Submission c/o K. Vijay-Shanker 103 Smith Hall Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 USA ============================================================================ Neural Information Processing Systems Natural and Synthetic Monday, Nov. 27 -- Saturday, Dec. 2, 2000 Denver, Colorado This is the fourteenth meeting of an interdisciplinary conference which brings together cognitive scientists, computer scientists, engineers, neuroscientists, physicists, statisticians, and mathematicians interested in all aspects of neural processing and computation. The conference will include invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. The conference is single track and is highly selective. We are particularly eager to increase speech-related submissions to the conference this year. Additional information on the conference, including the Call for Papers, Call for Workshop Proposals, paper deadlines, submission procedures, and conference organization can be found at: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/NIPS Paper submissions are due May 19, 2000. ============================================================================ Special issue on Multi-Media (IJST): call for submissions The International Journal of Speech Technology is currently soliciting submissions for a special issue on Multi-Media. Papers may be conceptual/theoretical or applied, but must pertain to multi-media in which speech technology (speech recognition, synthetic speech, TTS, IVR, voice identification/verification) is one of the media of interest. Papers should be from 10-25 double-spaced pages in length (excluding figures). Manuscript submission instructions can be found at http://www.wkap.nl/kaphtml.htm/IFA1381-2416. The deadline for submissions for this special issue is May 22, 2000. Six copies of the manuscript should be sent to: Melissa Andersen Kluwer Academic Publishers Journals Editorial Office 101 Philip Drive, Assinippi Park Norwell, MA 02061 Please include a cover letter specifying that your paper has been submitted specifically for the special multi-media issue. Inquiries to the Editor are welcome, should you wish to discuss a potential submission. If you're unfamiliar with this journal, an on-line sample copy is available at http://www.wkap.nl/journals/speech/. Daryle Gardner-Bonneau, Ph.D. Editor, International Journal of Speech Technology Phone: 616-329-1951 E-mail: JDNBonneau@cs.com ============================================================================ IDIAP--Dalle Molle Institute for Perceptual Artificial Intelligence, Martigny, Switzerland Group Leader and Senior positions available. In view of its current and future expansion, IDIAP (http://www.idiap.ch) currently has an open position for Speech Processing Group Leader, as well as several job openings at the level of postdoc and senior scientists in speech recognition and computer vision. IDIAP is a semi-private research institute located in Switzerland (Valais) and co-founded by the City of Martigny, the State of Valais, Swisscom, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), and the University of Geneva. IDIAP strives to maintain ongoing research projects of the highest standard in the areas of automatic speech and speaker recognition, computer vision, and machine learning. IDIAP is also involved in numerous national and international research projects. Qualified applicants are assumed to have a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related field. They must have an outstanding research record and a proven excellence in leadership, project management, and supervision of Ph.D. students. To apply, send a resume, a list of 3 to 5 references, and a few (2-3) selected publications to Professor H. Bourlard, IDIAP, P.O. Box 592, CH-1920 Martigny, Switzerland; email: secretariat@idiap.ch; phone: +41-27-721-77-11. Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled. ============================================================================ SAIL Trust is looking for tech entrepreneurs in the field of artificial intelligence and speech/language technologies SAIL Trust is a non-profit organisation based in Ieper (Belgium) whose aim is to promote the creation of business initiatives in the field of artificial intelligence and speech/language technologies. Through a world-wide network of incubation centres, SAIL covers all the necessary aspects that a startup needs to develop its project, from office space and funding up to internationalisation. At this moment we are looking for entrepreneurs to help them turn their ideas into reality. So, if you are interested, we would like to hear about that great idea. Please contact: carlos.pulido@sail.com, or visit our website www.sail.com for more details. ============================================================================ All additional information at the ISCA web-site: http://www.isca-speech.org The ISCA secretariat can be contacted at: info@isca-speech.org Requests concerning membership, Speech Communication and ordering Proceedings should be forwarded to the Secretariat. For message distribution at isca_list contact: publicity@isca-speech.org Short messages will be forwarded on a monthly scheme basis to all ISCA members. =============================================================================